Letters to the Editor
Have a comment on one of our stories or an issue you care about? Submit a Letter to the Editor! Please make sure to include your full name, city, and phone number. Your phone number will not be published. Keep the letter under 500 words, please!
Letter To The Editor: Wyoming Has Spoken Loud And Clear On 30% RMP Rate Hike
Dear Editor: “As voiced by numerous Wyoming residents, business owners and elected officials, a rate hike of this magnitude, or even far less, would devastate local Wyoming households and cripple local Wyoming businesses, in some cases crushing our ability to be competitive with foreign nations (i.e. China).”
August 31, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Agency Proposes Sensible Plan To Protect The Northern Red Desert
Dear editor, “Wildlife is hard-wired to the habitat occupied for thousands of years. Places, sounds, views, smells and even the solitude afforded by the Northern Red Desert are testimony to who we are as humans.”
August 30, 2023
Letter to the Editor: Grave Concerns Over Rocky Mountain Power Rate Increase
As a Hospital District, operating on razor thin margins in rural Wyoming, this rate increase cripples our ability to offer competitive medical services to our residents in Western Wyoming.
August 24, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Rocky Mountain's Power Rate Increase Will Wreak Havoc
Dear editor: Rocky Mountain Power has proposed to increase electric rates by an average of nearly 22 percent. Large industrial operations, including mining operations, are facing a whopping 33 percent hike between the two rate increases.  If approved, these rates will wreak havoc across Wyoming..."
August 21, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Don't Californicate Wyoming
Dear Editor: Has Richard Johnson ever been to San Francisco, Portland or Seattle to observe what his type of suggestions yield?
August 20, 2023
Letter To The Editor: David Weiss And The Biden Disaster
Dear editor: "The Democrat Party should pay a price at the ballot box for foisting, under false pretenses, a geriatric, mendacious, unethical, politician off on the American people. Hopefully, that will happen in November of 2024."
August 16, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Cat Urbigkit Is Wrong Comparing Oral Sex To Michelangelo's David
Dear editor: "Cat Urbigkit’s recent column establishes her literary 'credentials.' If she’s so familiar with literature, yet promotes pedophilic pornographic propaganda to minors, she can’t be innocent."
August 16, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Rocky Mountain Power's 29.2% Total Rate Increase
Dear editor: Rocky Mountain Power is requesting that YOUR power bill be raised almost 30%, with 7.6% of that already in place on an “interim basis” – prior to any ruling by the state’s Public Service Commission, and prior to the People of Wyoming having a voice and the ability to weigh in on a crippling rate hike."
August 10, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Run On WYO-STAR II Investment Fund Is Not Due To Ignorance
The following is a letter Converse County Treasurer Joel Schell sent to the State Land And Investment Board regarding local Wyoming governments pulling nearly $200 million over the past year from the WYO-STAR II investment fund. Schell agreed to let Cowboy State Daily publish the letter.
August 06, 2023
Letter To The Editor: CSD Downplayed Transgender Tennis Controversy
Dear editor: "Leo Wolfson’s article soft-pedaled the controversy over Brooklyn Ross participating as a woman in the Governor’s Cup tennis tournament. Wolfson quotes Ross saying that only a few Wyoming citizens objected to the participation of transgendered males in a women’s tournament..."
August 05, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Rod Miller Is Right (Kinda)
Dear editor: The only counterpoint I will offer to Rod is that removing books from a school library, to keep certain subject matter away from younger kids isn't the same as removing books from a public library or the internet from adults.Â
August 01, 2023
Letter To The Editor: Government Funded Shooting Complex Is Bad Idea
Dear editor: I am not a supporter of the ]$10 million government-funded shooting complex]. This should be a private business venture, not one that should be paid, operated and maintained with our tax money. Why hasn’t private business undertaken this project?"
July 20, 2023